One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Author	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Original title	Один день Ивана Денисовича
Translators	Ralph Parker (1963); Ron Hingley and Max Hayward (1963); Gillon Aitken (1970); H.T. Willetts (1991)
Language	Russian
Genre	Historical Fiction; Prison Novel; Political Novel
Publisher	Signet Classic
Publication date	1962
Publication place	Soviet Union
ISBN	0-451-52310-5
OCLC	29526909

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: Один день Ивана Денисовича, romanized: Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha, IPA: [ɐˈdʲin ˈdʲenʲ ɪˈvanə dʲɪˈnʲisəvʲɪtɕə]) is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World).^[1] The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the early 1950s and features the day of prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.

The book's publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history, since never before had an account of Stalinist repressions been openly distributed in the Soviet Union. Novy Mir editor Aleksandr Tvardovsky wrote a short introduction for the issue entitled "Instead of a Foreword".